Optoma HD25 – Design

table-friendly dimensions, and boldly curved front edge. However, there

are also some tell-tale signs of its comparatively budget (for a

projector at least) £800 price tag, including a rather plasticky finish

that’s especially noticeable around the lens housing. This cost-cutting

theme continues with the extensive use of grilling down each of the

projector’s edges, which hints at a rather basic approach to heat

dispersal and potentially inefficient use of the projector’s lamp power

should those grilles turn out to leak light as well as heat.

Connectivity

is actually quite good for a budget projector though. The two HDMIs are the

most important jacks, but some users will also appreciate the twin D-Sub PC

ports. The most surprising connection, though, is a small circular jack

to which you can connect a diddy 3D transmitter. Yes, that’s right:

despite costing just £800, the HD25 provides active 3D, even going so

far as to supply both the 3D transmitter and a pair of 3D glasses in the box.

Optoma HD25 – Specifications

The HD25 supports

its active 3D talents, moreover, with a Full HD native pixel count of

1920 x 1080. And that’s not the only number that impresses for £800

either; also promising is the combination of a claimed 2000 Lumens of

output brightness and a 20,000:1 contrast ratio achieved with the help

of a so-called DynamicBlack system that adjusts the lamp output

automatically in response to the image content. Furthermore Optoma also

claims that this dynamic contrast system is cleverer than most as it

also works to retain shadow detailing, so that the quest for a

convincing black colour doesn’t result in dark picture areas looking

excessively hollow and flat.

The

HD25 is a DLP projector, and as with most DLP projectors these days,

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